Best Albums 2009:
Top 10
1. St. Vincent - Actor
http://www.myspace.com/stvincent
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
http://www.myspace.com/juniorboys
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
http://www.myspace.com/superfurry
<Code> - Resplendent Grotesque
http://www.myspace.com/codeblackmetal
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
http://www.myspace.com/telefontelaviv
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
http://www.myspace.com/wilco
Daniel Johnston - Is and Always Was
http://www.myspace.com/dannyjohnston
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
http://www.myspace.com/princebonniebilly
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self
http://www.myspace.com/trailofdead
Bubblin' Under:
Uncle Skeleton - Pancho Chumley
A Psychedelic Guide To Monsterism Island
Norah Jones - The Fall
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
Kris Kristofferson - Closer To The Bone
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
Asobi Seksu - Hush
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Rubik - Dada Bandits
The Best Rock Albums 2009:
The Wildhearts - ¡Chutzpah!
http://www.myspace.com/thewildhearts
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
http://www.myspace.com/crookedvultures
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
http://www.myspace.com/wolfmother
The Black Crowes - Before The Frost... Until The Freeze
http://www.myspace.com/theblackcrowes
Death - ...For The Whole World To See
http://www.myspace.com/deathprotopunk
Gallows - Grey Britain
http://www.myspace.com/gallows
Sorry And The Sinatras - Highball Roller
http://www.myspace.com/sorryandthesinatras
Best Songs:
1. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I Won't Ask Again
Bruce Springsteen - A Night With The Jersey Devil
<Code> - Rattle Of Black Teeth
<Code> - In The Privacy Of Your Own Bones
Super Furry Animals - White Socks/Flip Flops
Rubik - Wasteland
St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work
St. Vincent - Black Rainbow
St. Vincent - Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
Röyksopp - Girl And The Robot
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Blackie's Dead
Passion Pit - Little Secrets
Neon Indian - Mind, Drips
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Far Pavillions
Hudson Mohawke - Gluetooth
Magenta Skycode - Escaping Outdoors
Magenta Skycode - We're Going to Climb
The Lemonheads - Beautiful (Christina Aguilera cover)
Doves - Jetstream
Doves - Winter Hill
Brendan Benson - Eyes On The Horizon
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Japanese Pop Star Remix)
Dinosaur Jr - See You
The Wildhearts - You Took The Sunshine From New York
The Wildhearts - Chutzpah
The Wildhearts - The Snake, The Lion, The Monkey And The Spider
Weird goods:
Sufjan Steven - The BQE
Andrew W.K. - 55 Cadillac
Shit:
KISS - Ihan Sama
Chikenfoot - En Muista
Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low (Ihan Paska)
Telefon Tel Aviv guy dead
Most Played:
The Wildhearts - ¡Chutzpah!
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
<Code> - Resplendent Grotesque
St. Vincent - Actor
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Soft Rock
Live 2009:
Coldplay - Bergen
Fever Ray - Tavastia
Kraftwerk - Suvilahti
Flaming Lips - Suvilahti
DJ Hedgehog ft. DJ Innocuous - Hanna ja Willen häät
Saturated trashcan in Finland.
Hey! Now you have a wonderfull opportunity to watch Mother Doesn't Bowl Anymore short film! It's directed by Teemu Nikki and shot by me!
I directed 3 tv-spots and shot stills for a Finnish fashion brand Seppälä. Check out the campaign site here. The project took almost the whole autumn: we shot the film in a huge chromakey studio located Vilnus, Lithuania. The post production was made in Talvi, in Helsinki Finland. They did a super job!
I've got my Cannondale SuperSix 2009 at the end of this summer. Really fast road bike! Now I fancy about this CC, which is soon to be mine! I went to the cyclestore (Velosport) yesterday to have a test ride with it. Damn it's beautiful, fast and light (comparing to my present XC bike GT Avalanche 1.0 Disc it's super light!). This is the bike for long winter training sessions in the beautiful Finnish countryside roads.
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
